Clench-button.



No. 731,441. r PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903 R. L. ELLERY.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 23, 190 3.,

ROBERT L. ELLERY, OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGN OR TO MORLEY BUTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SOUTH BERWICK, MAINE, AND BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

CLENCH-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,441, dated June 23, 1903. Application filed January 7, 1903. Serial No. 138,114. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT L. ELLERY, of Portsmouth,in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Clench-Button, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part hereof.

Olench-buttons consist of a button-head with two projecting prongs and have long been in common use by upholsterers and others; and my invention is a new article of that class; and it consists in a button-head with a staple attached to its under side by a second staple, whose bend is crosswise of the bend of the main staple and whose prongs are embedded in the button-head, so that the second staple makes a firm and strong union between the button-head and the main staple. Besides these advantages my new clenchbutton is admirably adapted to be manufactured rapidly and cheaply and with marked uniformity.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is diametrically through one of my buttons in one plane. Fig. 2 is a like section, but in a plane at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail of the preferred form of blank for the fastening-staple.

The staple A, suitably held,-has the staple B arranged with it, so that the bends of the two staples cross, and the prongs of staple B are embedded in the button-head 0, thus fastoning staple A securely to head 0 and producing a clench-button which is in some respects superior to any other heretofore known and'can be manufactured with great economy.

What I claim as my invention is The clench-button above described, made up of a head and two separate staples, with the bend of the first staple across the bend of the second, and the prongs of the first staple embedded in the head to fasten the head and the second staple together with the prongs of the second staple extending downward from the under side of the head, and held apart by the bend of the first staple.

ROBERT L. ELLERY.

WVitnesses:

JOHN W. KELLEY, O. B. MAYNADIER. 

